The Crime Branch of Chandigarh police have arrested a producer of Punjabi music videos and his driver, for allegedly sending a threat letters and demanding Rs 7 crore from a city-based jeweller.
The accused Harvir Singh, maker of Punjabi music videos, chanced upon this inspiration from a threatening letter on the Internet, which was received by one artiste from a militant organisation. Harvir copied the said letter from a social networking website of that artist and transcribed it in Punjabi, said Jagbeer Singh, DSP, Crime Branch.
The letter was then dropped at the residence of complainant Manoj Jain, a jeweller, by Harvir’s driver Jagdev Singh at Sector 35, on February 24, added Jagbeer.
Meanwhile both the accused were arrested on March 1. During further questioning with the duo, Harvir admitted that he was under heavy debt. He had borrowed money for investing in his business.
The police have also recovered the printer and hard disk of the computer, which was used in printing the letter and will be sent to CFSl for further analysis. Meanwhile both Harvir and Jagdev will be produced in the district court on Wednesday for further investigation in the matter. The complainant, Manoj Jain had reported to police that he received two threatening letters on Feb 20 and 24 on the Babbar Khalsa letterhead threatening him with kidnapping his son. The accused allegedly demanded Rs 7 crore as extortion or else his son would be killed.